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TIL the most successful pirate in history is a woman

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pWJG TIL Hitler’s plan for a rebuilt Berlin included the “People’s Dome”, a hall so big that if it were occupied at capacity, “the condensed breath of the [180,000] people would have accumulated in the dome and caused a rainfall”
kkm5 TIL a family found ~$80million in gold coins left by their father. They took the coins to the mint for authentication, only to have them seized by the US Government. They have yet to receive a cent in compensation.
1apg4 TIL I learned about the 1962 Tanganyika Laughter epidemic that started with the laughter of one student and passed along to the rest of the school and other communities, causing 14 school closures in total
YGrd TIL there is a building in Tokyo built in 1972, whose rooms consist of tiny 90 square foot capsule apartments that can be individually replaced like lego pieces.
neGw7 TIL in 1987 Jeremy Clarkson used to write Amstrad CPC video game reviews for the magazine Amstrad Computer User.